Cham Cham sweet

CHAM CHAM or Chomchom or cham cham, or chum chum is a traditional Bengali sweet, learn how to make it at home.

Ingredients

• 1 Litre milk
• 2 cup of sugar
• 5 cup of water
• 1 teaspoon cardamom powder
• 1 drop kewra essence
• 1/2 small bowl white vinegar

Method

Preparation of chenna

• Boil milk in a pot.
• Once the milk has boiled, switch off the flame.
• Mix vinegar and 2 tablespoons of water in a small cup, Put it in the boiled milk.
• Once the milk completely curdles, drain out the water using a strainer.
• Wash the chenna (milk solids) in cold water.
• Put it in a  cheesecloth and keep a heavy weight on top of the cheesecloth for 3 to 4 hours,

Preparation of Cham cham Sweets

• Remove the Cheena from the cloth and crumble it on the large plate.
• Mash it until it starts to turn like soft dough and add 2 drops of yellow color on it and mix well.
• Make a small portion of this dough and make oval-shaped patties.
• Heat sugar and water together in a large pan, once the sugar syrup starts boiling, put the patties one by one in it.
• Cover with lid.
• After 10 min turns patties on another side.
• Keep it on 30 min on medium flame.
• Off the flame and let it be cold, Once cham cham will cold add cardamon powder and 1 drop of kewra essence and mix very lightly.
• Garnish with dry fruits and serve it.

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